Hi-Rez Studios announces an April 12th release date for Tribes: Ascend, their upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter remake they are describing as the "world’s fastest shooter. They celebrate the news with a new Llama Island parody trailer: "Tribes is all about speed and movement," explains Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios Chief Operating Officer. "In fact the community uses the term llama to refer to a player moving too slowly, like a plodding llama. So this video demonstrates the perils of trying to capture a flag while going too slow. The outcome is predictable but no less tragic."

space captain wrote on Mar 9, 2012, 12:34:i remember playing tribes without 3d acceleration.. it was well over 10 years ago

I remember it being one of the few games with Glide support. Ah, Glide, I loved you so.

I remember Glide being a liability in Renegades mods. You'd turn on the Spy cloak and it only made you disappear if your opponents were using 3d acceleration. Software rendering nothing happened!

One thing I miss but am kind of glad that they didn't include in this Tribes (since they've taken items from Renegades) is the spy's ability to shoot the gun out of your hand with the magnum. I used to get insane kill streaks by shooting the gun out of peoples' hands and then headshotting them while they wondered WTF just happened.